The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini

Hear two outstanding scholars consider the art of biography and poetics of portraiture in fifteenth-century Italy.

Presented with the exhibition The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini.

Lectures
Portraits in Words: The Arts of Biography in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University

Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and the Poetics of Portraiture in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Caroline Elam, senior research fellow, The Warburg Institute, University of London